'Media' threatens not to cover Palin! How about promising that?

Hopefully the same group will stop 'covering' everything else. From The Caucus NY Times blog:

• (Caucus blog): "Update | 12:17 p.m.: Word now is that a print reporter will be allowed in at the next two meetings. Stayed tuned for updates on all the handshakes and pleasantries…

• Update | 12:02 p.m.: The campaign is relenting and letting in
• the television producer, so the camera crew will be going as well.
• But print reporters are up in arms about being excluded.

Media Rebellion: Live from New York, it’s Gov. Sarah Palin’s top-secret foreign policy tutorial!

• Ms. Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, is scheduled to meet Tuesday in New York with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia, and former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.

But the McCain-Palin campaign’s sharp limitations on coverage of the meetings have sparked a mini-revolt –

• and a threatened boycott — among the press corps."

A THREATENED BOYCOTT? How about promising that? Then it might be safe to leave the house in this country. (sm)

• (Caucus blog, NY Times): "The campaign plans to bar print reporters from the meetings, and to limit coverage to brief photo-ops for a still photographer and a television camera.
• The television stations, though, are objecting,
• noting that they have a policy of not sending cameras to cover events without
• a producer, who provided
• editorial guidance.

A stand-off has ensued, with the networks threatening not to send cameras. The newspapers are trying to get back into the act as well."

• Hooray! (sm)

(Caucus blog, NY Times): "It is not uncommon for meetings with world leaders to be pooled, but in the past the McCain campaign has at times allowed print reporters and televisions producers to look in and report any color – or exchange of pleasantries, usually banal – that occurs." via Poynter.org/Romenesko

• Pool coverage of news (including baseball news) is more than sufficient. (sm)

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